仁王般若經疏 3.118

3.118

From "Contemplating Buddha" onward explains the tenth stage. The text has three sections: first, explaining the functions within the stage; second, from "Good sons! From the patience of practice to the crowning samādhi" onward, evaluating and revealing superiority and showing the limits of practice, distinguishing the cause from the fruit, also termed the difference between seeing nature and not seeing nature; third, from "constantly cultivating all" onward, concluding with exhortation to enter the rank. Within the first, explaining the functions within the stage, there are four points: first, "Contemplating Buddha" is the name of the Dharma Cloud Stage. Second, "dwelling in the patience of quiescence and extinction" indicates the name of the patience. This tenth stage shares one and the same patience together with the Buddha, combining into the thirteenth Dharma master. Regarding "dwelling in the patience of quiescence and extinction": if taken specifically, it takes only the lower-grade patience of quiescence and extinction of the tenth stage; if taken comprehensively, it comprehensively explains that both Buddha and bodhisattvas are termed the patience of quiescence and extinction. Third, explaining the period of practice within the stage: the text says "having passed through a million" and so forth, explaining the long duration of practice; analogous to the earlier [number], it should say thirteen asaṃkhyeyas. "The merits of a million asaṃkhyeya kalpas" explains that the practices undertaken in this stage are vast and manifold. Fourth, showing the culmination and supreme height of the rank: the text says "ascends to liberation from all phenomena and dwells on the vajra terrace," regarding the tenth stage as the vajra terrace. It may also be that this phrase raises the fruit to reveal the cause, naming the Buddha as the vajra terrace. Because the causes of that tenth stage are fulfilled, the Buddha dwells in the fruit of the vajra terrace.